Since 1986, the ISSP has provided high-quality data on attitudes and behaviors on important societal issues such as family, health, work, religion, the role of government, social inequality, the environment, national identity and citizenship, social networks, or leisure and sports.

The newly launched ISSP User Conference Series is designed to provide a platform for the various global research activities based on cross-national ISSP data. It aims to stimulate exchanges between individual researchers, to expand the ISSP research community, to increase the ISSP’s visibility and to inform the global policy discussions on important societal issues.

The ISSP User Conference will be held once a year and will focus on a different main theme each year, starting with Social Inequality in 2022.

3rd ISSP User Conference

“Celebrating 40 Years of the International Social Survey Programme”
November 25, 2024

We are delighted to announce that the Best Paper Award at this year’s anniversary User Conference
has been presented to:

A big thank you to all participants for their exceptional contributions, and congratulations once again to Matthias Penker and Rebecca Wardana for this well-deserved recognition!

Call for Abstracts/Papers:

The Call for Abstracts is closed.

Program:
You can download the conference program, including the abstracts, as a PDF.
An extended version of the program including abstracts can be found here: (to come)

12:30 – 12:40 Short welcome and introduction to the ISSP

Stephanie Steinmetz (University of Lausanne)

12:40 – 13:40: Session 1: Family and changing gender roles

Chair: Anouk Albien (University of Lausanne)

  1. Work and Family Conflict: Indicators, Changes, and Welfare Policy Regimes
    Shih-Yi Chao (Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
  2. Toward a Universal Caregiver Society: Examining the Effectiveness of De/Familialization Complementary Measures
    Eun-Jung Hwang (Gyeonggi Research Institute, Republic of Korea)
  3. Heterogeneity in Family Norms for Elderly Caregiving and Cost-Bearing: A Global Evidence
    Harchand Ram (Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India)
  4. When do mothers matter most? How is intergenerational reproduction of father’s and mother occupational status affected by institutional and normative context?
    Harry B.G. Ganzeboom (Department of Sociology, VU University Amsterdam), & Irma Mooi-Reci (University of Melbourne)

13:55 – 14:55: Session 2: Social networks, social capital and inequality

Chair: Marlène Sapin (University of Lausanne)

  1. Social Capital and Gender Wage Gaps: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
    Yifei Lu (Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China)
  2. Integration and Differentiation: The Structural Forces Shaping Individual Social Capital Across 31
    Countries
    Xiaoguang Li, Xiaoxian Guo & Runqi Zhou (Department of Sociology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China)
  3. How Income Inequality Shapes Individual Health: A Weak-Tie Social Capital Perspective in the Cross National Context
    Chin-Han Chan (University at Albany, State University of New York)
  4. Social networks and attitudes towards inequality: Unraveling the influence of acquaintances’
    socioeconomic diversity and status across contemporary societies
    Gonzalo Franetovic (Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy)

15:10 – 16:10 Session 3: Health, environment and social contexts

Chair: Markus Hadler (University of Graz)

  1. Comparison of paid leave preferences in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia between 2012 and 2022
    Třísková Hana (Department of Demography and Geodemography,Charles University, Czech Republic) & Szalma Ivett (HUN-REN – Centre for Social Sciences – Institute for Sociology, Hungary )
  2. How many children in a family? Fertility ideals and gender equality norms in 26 societies.
    Jonas Edlund & Ida Öun (Umeå University, Sweden)
  3. Trust in Healthcare and its predictors before and after COVID-19 pandemic: Time-comparative
    research using ISSP data
    Alena Auchynnikava, Dr. Nazim Habibov (School of Work, University of Windsor, Canada) & Yunhong Lyu (Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Windsor, Canada).
  4. 30 Years of Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours. A Longitudinal Study on
    Environmental Change and National Affluence in European Societies using ISSP Data (1993-2020)
    Matthias Penker (Center for Social Research, University of Graz, Austria) & Rebecca Wardana (Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria)

16:10 – 16:30: Best Paper Award Ceremony & Closure of the conference

We would like to thank our sponsors (Slovakia; South Korea and Switzerland) for their generous
contribution to the best paper award.

Organizers:

The ISSP Secretariat and the Editors of the planned special issue of the International Journal of Sociology (IJS).

Contact:

For any questions related to this online conference, you can contact the ISSP Secretariat.

Past Events

2nd ISSP User Conference: “Environment”

Date: December 4, 2023

A warm thank you to all who joined us for the 2nd ISSP User Conference, centered around the theme of “Environment”. The conference, held on December 4, 2023, featured engaging presentations and dynamic discussions. If you couldn’t attend or would like to revisit the event, you can access the full program here.

1st ISSP User Conference: ‘Social Inequality‘

Date: December 12, 2022

The 1st ISSP User Conference focused on “Social Inequality” and took place on December 12, 2022. If you missed it or would like to review the program, you can find it here.